Question 7 Looking back at the perliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progession from it to a full product?

My perlimery task was to make a college magazine front page and contents page. I think I gained more experience with this task than I had for my last task. Having been familiar with photoshop before I started my perliminary task gave me more time to plan out my ideas and what id like to do. With gaining more knowledge gave me the opptunity to create any idea that I had with no restrictions.

Since I started the task I tried to stick to all deadlines that were given to me but some tasks took longer to do than others. For example the actual putting together of the magazine took longer than any of the tasks that I was given.
To try to keep to my deadline I had to work around my friends time because they couldn't stay after college so I had to book a camera to take with me so I can take photos outside of college and borrow my friends cameras who do photography so I can do my work in there our free periods.
I was able to use professional cameras for all of my photos taken because of this.
I took alot of photos in many places and I used the best ones that would fit into my magazine. As you can see from earlier the photos I took of the girl when I first took photos weren't used for my magazine because I took better ones which were used for my magazine. I only wanted the best for my magazine to appeal to my audience.

Using the camera was easy as most of its functions were automatic like the LCD flash would come up if there was low lighting and the photos would usually focus themselves so I wouldn't have to. What I had to do was find good locations with sufficient lighting so I could take my photos so they can come out in the best possible  quality for the editing stage where I can take out anything that I don't like.

I also found out about websites for fonts to find and how to download them. This was very useful for me because I wanted the best possible fonts for my magazine but I didn't know where to look or where to find them.

The strengths of my magazine is that my friends and my teacher likes it and I am very happy with my work I have done and the experience I have gained using photoshop. I am also pleased with how organised I have been and that I have met most of my dead lines and added more interesting features to my work such as a real life interview with a band member.

My weaknesses would definitely be that I used the colour red to much for my front cover. I also a slight blemish with my models hair where there's a white bit in his hair that suppose to be in line with the background.
I could have kept up with all my deadlines but some were hard to keep with as there was alot of work to do to get it done as I needed to do research as I didn't no anything about any publishing companies and I didn't no much about the publishing industry until now.
When I look back at my first task I definitely see where I have improved with my photoshop skills and research skills and knowing what the my target audience wants out of a magazine.